ILEA000014234: Panel may freeze Metropolitan, Hanshin highway projects

Japan expects 4.5% economic contraction for FY 2020 due to virus pandemic

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) speaks during a meeting of the government's economic and financial advisory body in Tokyo on July 30, 2020. The Cabinet Office said the same day that Japan's economy will likely contract a real 4.5 percent in fiscal 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Online conference to foster Japan's digital market

Photo taken at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 16, 2020, shows Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (L) and economic revitalization minister Yasutoshi Nishimura attending an online conference sponsored by the central government to promote competition in Japan's digital business market. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Toyoko INN Tokyo Station Shin-Ohashi-mae Room Facilities

In principle, patients are not allowed to go out of the hotel, and if their condition should suddenly change, they will be taken to a medical institution. Tokyo Metropolitan Government employees will also be on hand. Nurses, doctors, metropolitan government officials and hotel employees will not come face-to-face with patients. Kaori Okamoto, head of the department in charge of medical system improvement, plans to expand the program by gaining expertise in its operation. The metropolitan government has earmarked 6.5 billion yen in its fiscal 2020 supplementary budget to cover the cost of renting these hotels, disinfecting them, paying for meals and dispatching medical personnel. Toyoko Inn Co. of Ota Ward, Tokyo, was selected because it has a track record of accepting people awaiting test results at other hotels and because Toyoko Inn Tokyo Station Shin-Ohashi-mae is air-conditioned in private rooms, not the entire building. April 7, 2027, Chuo-ku, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

TPP ministerial meeting in Sydney

SYDNEY, Australia - Trade ministers from the 12 Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiating countries, including Akira Amari (2nd from L), Japan's Cabinet minister in charge of the TPP trade talks, pose for a group photo in Sydney, Australia, on Oct. 26, 2014, the second day of their three-day meeting.

World Assembly for Women

TOKYO, Japan - Akie Abe (L), the wife of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and Cherie Blair, founder of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women and wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, attend a dialogue session at the World Assembly for Women in Tokyo on Sept. 12, 2014. The three-day international symposium on women's empowerment, dubbed the "women's Davos forum" by Prime Minister Abe, began the same day.

Diet approves BOJ chief Kuroda's reappointment

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (far R) and members of his Cabinet applaud at a plenary session of the House of Representatives in Tokyo on April 5, 2013, after the lower house approved the government's reappointment of Bank of Japan chief Haruhiko Kuroda for a five-year term after he serves the remainder of his predecessor's tenure.

Fujii resigns as Japan finance minister

TOKYO, Japan - This Sept. 17, 2009, file photo shows then Japanese Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii (L) and his predecessor Kaoru Yosano chatting during a handover ceremony at the Finance Ministry the day after Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama launched his new Cabinet. Fujii was replaced with Deputy Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Jan. 6, 2010, after tendering his resignation. (Kyodo)

Kan, Takenaka clash over economic growth priority

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show former Liberal Democratic Party Cabinet minister Heizo Takenaka (L) and Deputy Prime Minister Naoto Kan of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan during a meeting of the government's growth strategy panel in Tokyo on Dec. 16, 2009. The two clashed over whether priority should be given to businesses or households to boost Japan's economic growth. (Kyodo)

Team on JAL aims for road map on pension problem by next week

TOKYO, Japan - Senior vice transport minister Kiyomi Tsujimoto, who serves as the secretary general of the government team to address the turnaround of Japan Airlines Corp., speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Nov. 5, 2009, after the second session of the task force. (Kyodo)

Gov't manages to salvage over 2.5 tril. yen from extra budget

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 6, 2009, after he received a report on reviewing the extra budget approved by the previous government from Yoshito Sengoku, state minister in charge of administrative reform and public servant system reform. (Kyodo)

Panel may freeze Metropolitan, Hanshin highway projects

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuteru Ishihara (L), cabinet minister in charge of administrative reform, attends a second-day session of a government advisory panel tasked with privatizing road-related public corporations at a hotel in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Aug. 23. (Kyodo)

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